8 Things We Need To Do For President Obama
President Obama isn’t a miracle worker. He can’t fix every problem and he can’t do it alone. We have to do our part.
Even if we don’t have solutions to fix the economic mess, there are actions we each can take to move our country into a better direction and to help President Obama. Some are difficult, while others are easy.
Below are 8 things we can and need to do for President Obama.
1. Have patience
A week after Mr. Obama’s inauguration he’s not going to have every problem solved. It might take his entire four years to make any real progress or we might not even see any results until he’s out of office.
2. Keep hope
Hope is a powerful force. We need to keep it along with our positivity.
With President Bush, we as a nation lost hope. Even if the President didn’t display it, it was a blow to his morale.
When he and his administration believed that the nation’s people lost faith and hope in them, they began to lose faith in themselves which lead them to make bad decisions.
3. Understand he can’t please everyone
President Obama is going to make decisions and take action that you won’t like. There’s 300 million people in America and there’s no way he can please them all.
Keep fighting for what you believe is right, but don’t be defeated by his decisions.
4. Acknowledge that he probably can’t stick to all his promises
Even if he sincerely wants to stick to all of them, some of his promises will have to be broken. Problems will appear in the coming years that will throw his plans off course. It happens to all of us.
Hopefully when he breaks his promises, it’s for the greater good.
5. Don’t wait for change
Positive change has come to America, but has it come to you?
Change can come to our lives, but if we want it to be positive, we have to create it, not wait for it.
If you really want America to change, you’ve got to help, and it often starts at home.
President Obama isn’t going to fix your personal debts or problems. YOU have to.
6. Maintain enthusiasm
If we can maintain the enthusiasm that was displayed on election night, America is going to have many positive and prosperous years ahead.
It’s the exact mindset President Obama, his administration, and we need to get beyond the financial troubles.
7. Don’t idolize him
Mr. Obama is human just like the rest of us. He’s going to make mistakes, both big and small, and some of his ideas may fail.
Admiration for him and his amazing success is one thing, but placing him on a pedestal defeats the purpose of what the President of the United States is supposed to be.
8. Pursue life, liberty, and happiness
The greatest thing you can do for President Obama is something you need to do for your family and for yourself.
The Revolutionists, the Founding Fathers, Women’s Suffragists, the Civil Rights Activists, and soldiers didn’t fight for this country and for you, just so you could simply sit on your ass!
They wanted you to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
Are you living life? Or are you merely existing?
Are you liberated from your fears and inhibitions?
Are you truly happy? Or do you believe material possessions bring you happiness?
If you aren’t pursing life, liberty, and happiness; then you aren’t fulfilling the dreams of all those who fought for you. And you clearly can’t be fulfilling your own dreams.
You can’t wait any longer and either can the nation.
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Pedal stool? I think you meant Pedestal. Obama will continue Bush’s policies of expanding government with the same results.
Jermy,
Expanding government isn’t the problem. In some respects government should certainly be expansive. The problem with both Bush and Obama is the perpetuation of American corporatism. It’s corporate manipulation and greed which has made government “expansively” aid multinationals and forget about American citizens.
apply these things to the bush administration. i am not a fan of him, but seems like image is everything to people
this is a pretty apt description of our role in this thing. obama is not savior; he’s a president, one that i think will do his damnedest to do his job well. i absolutely don’t agree with all his tactics, but his motivation to increase transparency is brilliant.
What is Change? Finding the new ways to accept what we cannot change, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to Change how we distinguish the one from the other.
Just drop it down.
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@jermy – Whoops… Thanks! Fixed it. No one’s perfect.
@Nick – Hopefully Obama can work more with social and green businesses to end the trend. We’ll have to see.
@sarah – I think people just lost the motivation to take action like with the Bush administration.
@christian – I agree. I think he’ll do the best job he can possibly do.
-Andrew
I think we all need to remember that no one could do as bad a job at running the country as Bush did. Good intentions or no, he had no idea what he was doing.
We also need to remember that Obama actually has the best chance of anyone of turning this country around and getting it back out of the quicksand.
And the only people who will care if Obama cannot be the be all end all do everything person are the people who did not vote for him in the first place. Let’s be real here.
Hey Rebecca,
I also feel that Obama has so much positive pressure on him, that he has no choice but to really produce change. If he doesn’t do it, it would be a MAJOR let down to the American and to his own family.
-Andrew
“Even if we don’t have solutions to fix the economic mess, there are actions we each can take to move our country into a better direction and to help President Obama.”
We could have helped him by elected someone who knew how to solve the economic mess we’re in. Then he could have waited 4/8 years, and not have had to deal with it. I guess it’s too late for that now, so perhaps we should encourage him to listen to the people who have been predicting this for several years now.
Well, we can talk about all the shouldas, wouldas, and couldas, but we can’t live in the past. Mr. Obama is now our President. So we need to deal with it and make the best of it.
I definitely agree with you. He doesn’t have all the answer and should certainly listen to the people of the country and to those around him. That’s what a President is supposed to do.
-Andrew
I definitely agree; we need to keep in mind that our new President isn’t a miracle worker. I have as much hope as anyone else that he will work to pull us through these tough times, but not without our help.
Exactly Tom! He’s our President so let’s all do the best WE can and WE’ll get through these times.
-Andrew
I love these ideas…I think people want to criticize the man cause they can help but live in that negative space…
Very true!
-Andrew